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RAJU CHEBIUM
Gannett Washington Bureau

Obama said the tax would generate more than $1 billion for cleanups, adding that companies wouldn't have to pay it until 2011, after the economy improves.

New Jersey Democrats, in particular Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Long Branch, are big advocates of reviving the tax, aimed at getting industry to pay to clean up heavily polluted sites. The Garden State has more Superfund sites on the nation's cleanup priority list than any other state - 114. Many of ...